It’s a great gift and a torture device as well! The Magic IQ Gift Box is a great way to hide a gift, if you can figure out how to open it! Best not to put in anything perishable, it might be there for a long time.

The heck with Lego or Erector Sets, here is the ultimate building game, a Hydrodynamic builiding set! You connect the girders and add the tanks, with a little help (but not total) from the instructions. Once it’s all connected, you turn on the power and watch the water flow!

Of course, if you have a school age child to buy for, this is an excellent gift that will make you the hero of both parents and child, but get one for yourself as well.

Ah, the Rubik’s Cube, a classic puzzle and source of eternal frustration for many of us as kids. Now you can pass the frustration on to the next generation and give your child something besides video games to wrestle with for hours